Engineering Assistant Discipline Specific OC at Anglo American

Purpose of the role

 The Engineering Assistant provides a pool of support of basic discipline specific engineering, technical skills and is required to
support all the Engineering Foreman/Artisan to whom the individual is allocated to perform low complexity high volume work.

Work of Role

• Quality support is provided to artisans
•  Good House keeping
•  Material & workshop machinery & equipment control
•  Use of Engineering tools
•  Loading, dispatching material & equipment to work sites
•  Provides assistance to all trades (Artisans) with activities within and without the team.
•  Ensure tool availability
•  Follow work instructions
•  Ensure proper understanding of the required actions
•  Apply recognized work and safety standards
•  Ensure that members work together as a team while completing tasks
•  Ensure that tasks are completed to required quality standards
•  Ensure that material is not unnecessarily wasted
•  Conform to work standards.
•  Good safety practices & Adherence to safety & risks requirements.
•  Teamwork & incident prevention
•  Standards / procedure & golden rules adherence
•  Quality of work performed
•  Adherence to work schedules
•  Accuracy of work
•  Machine / equipment availability
•  Material / equipment usage to standard
•  Improvement ideas
•  Housekeeping standards
•  Safety record
•  Ensure that all required tools, material and spares are available to perform tasks
•  Communication to artisans any unexpected problems
•  Effective two-way communication with team members
•  Help operational employees to maintain equipment in area of responsibility
•  Accompany artisan when inspecting and completing tasks
•  Promote safety awareness by reminding team members to follow work procedures and identifying unsafe work practices
•  Report any safety related issues to the artisan or full-time safety rep

Qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills:

•  Grade 12 Maths and Science.
•  Internal – IDC to develop individual through ABET, NCOR, NTC1

Experience:

• None

Knowledge and Skills:

• Communication in English
• Physical Requirement
• Medically Fit